- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Forge Books; First Edition edition (Mar 31 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0765312778
- ISBN-13: 978-0765312778
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.4 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 567 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #295,011 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for F. Paul Wilson:
“F. Paul Wilson is a great storyteller and a thoughtful one. He speculates about real science to generate real suspense while raising troubling, real issues we may all be dealing with much sooner than we expect.”
--David Morrell, author of First Blood
“F. Paul Wilson is a writer’s writer, and I grab anything he’s written with enthusiasm.”
--Joe R. Lansdale, author of Freezer Burn
“Like the best of Dean Koontz’s work, Wilson’s work combines an action-adventure yarn with a touch of the fantastic.”
--The Denver Post
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Aftershock & Others is the third collection of short fiction by New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson, hailed by the Rocky Mountain News as “among the finest storytellers of our times.”
The title novelette won the Bram Stoker Award and its companions touch on the past, present, and future—from the inflationary insanity of Weimar Germany (“Aryans and Absinthe”) to disco club–era Manhattan (“When He Was Fab”), to the rationing of medical services in a grim near future (“Offshore”). Wilson’s stylistic diversity and versatility are on display in stories that pay tribute to Ray Bradbury (“The November Game”), use a sentient killer virus as a point-of-view character (“Lysing toward Bethlehem”), and pay unabashed homage to pure pulp fiction in two yellow peril stories (“Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong” and “Part of the Game”). And finally, Wilson treats us to his popular antihero Repairman Jack at his most inventive: trapped in a drugstore with four killers (“Interlude at Duane’s”).
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Another great collection of short stories from F Paul Wilson,
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This review is from: Aftershock & Others: 19 Oddities (Hardcover)
Like his previous collections of short stories, F Paul Wilson crosses and mixes genres with his usual deftness. The stories are offered in chronological order and grouped by year with each grouping prefaced by a short but interesting autobiographical note. This collection will be most appreciated by readers already familiar with his well crafted narratives, but anyone looking to be entertained by "short but sweet" tales of dread and discomfort as well as a bit of fear and action should give it a try.
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4.6 out of 5 stars (13 customer reviews) 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must for fans, but a great starting point, too.,
By Joshua Mauthe - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Aftershock & Others: 19 Oddities (Hardcover)
Wilson's third - and reportedly, last - collection of short fiction shows off both his talents and his weaknesses, but still makes for a great read. Wilson's talent isn't so much in his prose - it's serviceable, but nothing extraordinary - but in his characters and his plotting, and both are in great evidence here. From the title tale, which spins a ghost story of sorts into a haunting portrait of loss, to "Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong," a Yellow Peril homage, it's clear that Wilson writes for the love of his tales, and it's hard not to get caught up in his enthusiasm. At worst, he still spins a fun tale; at his best, as in "Aryans and Absinthe," he evokes the mood and atmosphere of a time tastefully but horrifically. And when everything is firing - for instance, in a tale about a magical word (whose title is designed to be impossible to type) - you're in for a hell of a ride. And if that doesn't sell you, what about one of the best short Repairman Jack stories you'll ever get a chance to read? Definitely a must for fans, but a great place to start, too.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome Anthology,
By James Tepper - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Aftershock & Others: 19 Oddities (Hardcover)
"Aftershock & Others|19 Oddities" is F. Paul Wilson's third and last (according to the Afterword) collection of short stories. Too bad! The stories are great - almost every one a home run. I am familiar with (and a great fan of) his Repairman Jack novels and the Adversary Cycle, but had not read either of his two previous collections of short stories, something that I intend to remedy quickly.The stories in "Aftershock & Others|19 Oddities" are collected into "chapters" corresponding to the year in which they were written from 1990 through 2005. Each chapter/year, including several in which no short stories were written begins with a recap by Wilson of his literary activities during that year. These little vignettes are almost as entertaining as the stories themselves, and shed quite a bit of light on the author's personality and prodigious productivity and work ethic. But the gold here is in the short fiction. There isn't a stinker in the bunch, and so many are so good that I can't pick a favorite. They run the gamut from SF (WHen He Was Fab) through SF- horror (Itsy-Bitsy Spider, Aftershock) to ghost stories (Anna) and many others impossible to genre-alize (e.g., Aryans and Abysinthe -a Nazi Germany tale set in 1923, Foet -a fashionista nightmare and one of my favorites whose title I cannot write. It all ends with a great Repairman Jack shorty in which the action is strictly on Jack sans the Secret History context (Interlude at Duane's). The writing and plotting are simply outstanding. I was blown away. If you are already a fan of Wilson's novels, this is a no-brainer - buy it, you'll like it. If you have never read anything by F. Paul Wilson (who is far better known for his novels than his short stories) but like fantasy/SF/horror and/or short stories, buy it, you'll like it. And even if you're read some of his novels and are not particularly a fan, there is enough dry humor suffused though some of the stories and the wonderful year by year synopses that I still say, buy it, you'll like it. I sure did. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great read Good introducton to F Paul Wilson,
By J. Dickson "tolive" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Aftershock & Others: 19 Oddities (Hardcover)
This is a great introduction to perhaps the best storyteller in the thriller genre today. The only disappointment was that the author says it is his last short story collection. I confess to being a very big F Paul Wilson fan. I buy all his Repairman Jack novels as soon as they appear in hardback. I enjoyed the running commentary on his writing career's ups and downs almost as much as the varied stories. The stories run the gamut from horror, to Hitler (!), to spooky (so I have a spider phobia, so what) to "fashionable" hypocrisy and all are immensely readable and entertaining. You won't want to put it down. I was so taken with the stories that I went back and re-read the complete Repairman Jack series (for the umpteenth time). If you like this collection, and I have not recommended it to anyone who didn't, you'll want to hunt up Wilson's other work. While I anxiously await each new book from him, the author will probably be surprised to find that to one of his biggest fans, the Lanague Chronicles consisting of "Healer"[ASIN:0976654415 Healer (The LaNague Federation, Book 3)], "Wheels Within Wheels" [ASIN:0976654431 Wheels within Wheels], and "An Enemy of the State" [ASIN:0976654423 An Enemy of the State (The LaNague Federation, Book 1)] with a few related short stories), written at the beginning of his career, is still my favorite. He went from SF (where we sorely miss him) to medical thrillers to the broader thriller genre. AFTERSHOCK gives you a sample of all his varied story telling skills. Buy it. Read it. Enjoy!
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